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Re: Force git diff to create a binary patch?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 13, 2020, 14:51 UTC
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Jason Xu <jasonx98@gmail.com> writes:
> Here are two small files with non-ASCII data, yet git diff considers
> them text instead of binary.

Because it is based on heuristics, without a NUL in that short file, the file may not be judged to be binary.

    echo '* -diff' >.git/info/attributes

would tell Git that they need to be treated as binary junk not suited for textual diff (you'd need to tweak the pattern to your need).

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